[Nhcoll-l] Plastic sleeves for bird skins

Wed Jun 21 15:17:05 EDT 2017

 Hi all -

We also use these strategies of heat sealing polyethylene tubing or
sheeting around study skins as a protective measure to minimize risk of
exposure to heavy metals in the skins from preparing or residual
pesticides. (And a preventive measure in the event of a water emergency).

I'd be interested in folks opinions of this strategy - does it create too
much of a limitation to researchers? We feel like we can cut these open and
replace when needed, and can design  the containers to have space for
resealing, I am interested in hearing others experience.

What are other people doing to minimize risk of exposure to the heavy
metals? Have folks received other guiendence that may be helpful to
consider?

Thanks!

Dana Senge
Senior Objects Conservator
Intermountain Region Museum Services Program
National Park Service
Western Archeological and Conservation Center

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-------- Original message --------
From: Gali Beiner <gali.beiner at mail.huji.ac.il>
Date: 6/5/17 00:57 (GMT-07:00)
To: James Erdmann <muddynaturalist at gmail.com>
Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Plastic sleeves for bird skins

Hello James,

Regarding sizes and shaps of tubing, I've been using polyethylene sheet
rolls, cut to whichever size was required and joined where required with a
heat-seal machine. Could this be of help to you with oddly sized and/shaped
specimens? Mostly, I've done this to creat dust covers for larger specimens
and temporary sealing prior to freezing (pest eradication). Admittedly this
is regular polythene rather than the brand you specified.

Best wishes,

Gali

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 5:58 PM, James Erdmann <muddynaturalist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Amos,
>
> We have recently bagged our birds and mammals after a growing infestation
> of drugstore beetles. After cleaning each specimen, we sealed them in ULINE
> poly tubing.
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.uline.com_Product_Detail_S-2D1116_Poly-2DTubing_2-2DMi&d=DwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=HRTrInyxzF9XfR-oYCSyE19jzj9THlqeHGbGmNBtJiM&s=1senEyRhuYBFi8mBiqXpc98HIzSMN6EVLnM6CuGCqwA&e= 
> l-Poly-Tubing-Roll-8-x-3000
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.uline.com_Product_Detail_S-2D1116_Poly-2DTubing_2-2DMil-2DPoly-2DTubing-2DRoll-2D8-2Dx-2D3000&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=cXzn8FAwjQnZzSbkZbGGeTZOC3Xzp0Y14E2JBzh4pOA&s=NKs9HaaiVxrwFKfOKB1NAnB_fBXhq_k_STMduRSWe-I&e=>
>
> They have been in the sealed bags for almost 2 years now and are doing
> great. If doing this, I would consider adding dry-packs to the bag. There
> is a brief discussion of this procedure in Hendry (1999, p. 15, linked). An
> issue I have found is with how to seal larger specimens – one could always
> stitch multiple pieces of tubing together with glue, tape, or spot-heating.
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.natsca.org_sites_default_files_publications_books&d=DwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=HRTrInyxzF9XfR-oYCSyE19jzj9THlqeHGbGmNBtJiM&s=uFHrmrxl2Syu4Bw4oDp5nksNKEQmpnr8mxTsk6ufvDI&e= 
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>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James
>
> On Jun 4, 2017, at 8:21 AM, Amos Belmaker <belmakera at tauex.tau.ac.il>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are in the process of organizing and modernizing our vertebrate
> collection. As part of that process we want to both protect our bird and
> mammal skins and be able to stick a bar-code on each specimen.
>
> We were thinking about putting each skin in a plastic sleeve to protect it
> while allowing us to stick the bar-code to the sleeve allowing us to scan
> without touching the specimen. Of course this will not be instead of a
> label.
>
> I was trying to find some guidelines for the use of such sleeves and
> couldn't find any. Does anyone have any recommendation/thoughts on this?
> Is this a good idea? Where can I buy them?  Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
> Amos Belmaker
>
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